IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski
Avalon: Convergence in the Simulacrum
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Author: karstenj Date: 02/08/2006
I spent some time creating an application entirely in Expression Interactive Designer (EID)called...
Author: karstenj Date: 02/01/2006
Heard about MIX yet? It is a Microsoft conference in Vegas focused on the "next" web -- should be...
Author: karstenj Date: 02/01/2006
Andrew Whiddett on Asynchronous Databinding, the Dispatcher class and using DispatcherPriority.Background
Andrew Whiddett is a developer at REZN8, an amazing interactive design firm. REZN8 built the Netflix...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/27/2006
If you are looking to get your hands dirty with WPF, check out the Hands-On Labs just posted on...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/25/2006
At long last, Expression Interactive Designer is available to the public at large. My thoughts on...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/24/2006
I was recently helping a friend with an Avalon 3D app and he was very confused as to why his models...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/20/2006
Arik Cohen, who is the release manager for Avalon, has a blog post on why WPF doesn't have a Go Live...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/18/2006
You may have seen that a new CTP of WinFX has been released -- check out Tim's post for all the...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/18/2006
December 2005. Introducing the December 2005 CTP. What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation,...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/09/2006
Interesting piece by Forrester on the relevance of XAML and, by extension, Avalon.
Author: karstenj Date: 01/09/2006
I recently needed the script to set the MIME types and forgot where it was; figured I'd blog it in...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/03/2006
For the first time, WinFX has German and Japanese language pack download pages:...
Author: karstenj Date: 12/20/2005
The draft piece I posted for the Nov CTP is now posted on MSDN. This build of WinFX has very few...
Author: karstenj Date: 12/19/2005
Most of the data binding samples in the SDK show binding to an object data source where the objects...
Author: karstenj Date: 12/09/2005
If you are doing 3D in Avalon, you must read Ernie's post on the change in the November CTP to...
Author: karstenj Date: 12/08/2005
I recently needed to create a full trust .xbap application on the November CTP. As you may know,...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/29/2005
Just hit this issue: .xbap (Avalon Web Browser Application) launches fine from VS, but crashes if...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/29/2005
If you are using media in clock mode (again, see the draft article on the Nov CTP for more on the...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/22/2005
Just came across an issue with restarting media in the Nov CTP. First off, assume the code is using...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/22/2005
Okay, I can get back to blogging about Avalon now that the November CTP is out. (Silent periods on...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/18/2005
I encountered another pertinant passage related to programming in Chapter 1 of The Archeology of...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/16/2005
I was re-reading The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) by Michel Foucault and came across a fantastic...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/14/2005
I just discovered the HierarchicalDataTemplate, which is basically a DataTemplate that can...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/02/2005
Casey, from brains-N-brawn, has written an article that describes his experience with Avalon and...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/01/2005
In discussing the change to ModelVisual3D, I mentioned two benefits of the change are databinding...
Author: karstenj Date: 10/28/2005
Okay, this is slightly old news (I was on vacation two weeks ago and on the road this week) but...
Author: karstenj Date: 10/28/2005
If you want to learn Avalon, the PDC Hands-On Labs are probably one of the best sources of material...
Author: karstenj Date: 10/24/2005
Viliescu, an active member of the Avalon community, has posted a sample that shows WPF in an IFrame....
Author: karstenj Date: 10/12/2005
I was so head's down in PDC crunch mode that I only now discovered the WPF Forum on the MSDN Forums....
Author: karstenj Date: 10/10/2005
Just posted on Thomas Goddard's blog: A plug-in for Maya to export XAML. I don't have Maya myself,...
Author: karstenj Date: 10/07/2005
I've updated Sandbox3D, an application that allows you to place primitives in a WPF 3D space and...
Author: karstenj Date: 10/06/2005
I didn't accurately represent ScreenSpaceLines3D when I called the class a kind of "line primitive."...
Author: karstenj Date: 10/05/2005
Robert Hogue has ported most of his samples to the Sept CTP. I call these samples the "keys to 3D...
Author: karstenj Date: 09/30/2005
When using video in Avalon, you are free to use any codec supported by Windows Media Player. This is...
Author: karstenj Date: 09/29/2005
Avalon 3D has always suffered from aliasing problems. Consider the following 3D mesh, from the ZAM3D...
Author: karstenj Date: 09/28/2005
The PDC is here, which means I can finally talk about things that I couldn't all summer. Much of my...
Author: karstenj Date: 09/15/2005
I've been living in 3D space with Avalon, which can be disorienting to say the least. There is this...
Author: karstenj Date: 08/11/2005
A key tenet of Avalon is "lookless" controls: a button should simply be the idea of a button, not...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/22/2005
Okay, here's the scerario: You've got a bunch of constants in your code in a static class that you...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/15/2005
Very nice code samples and article up on Code Project by Andrej Benedik. His tool is quite handy but...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/12/2005
It isn't immediately clear how to play audio in Avlaon. Basically, anything Windows Media Player can...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/12/2005
I recently put this XAML together -- it shows animating a MediaElement with a ScaleTransform, kind...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/11/2005
Speaking of converenge, the Text Skeleton demo in the SDK shows how text can be manipulated in yet...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/30/2005
I recently wanted to pass a preprocessor directive (as in affecting /define in csc.exe) to MSBUILD...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/28/2005
Living in Avalon 2D/3D means doing math -- more math than I've done in a long, long time. My trig is...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/27/2005
Further into Software Engineering and Computer Games by Rudy Rucker: Very often there is no one...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/26/2005
True to the notion of convergence, video is just another element in Avalon. So, can one paint video...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/24/2005